Toy gun



B` B. JGERKEN Sept. 1, 1931.

TOY GUN Filed Aug. 23. 1930 INVENTOR A 5.5. Gerkfn MGM?? 9.13m

ATTORN EY Patented Sept. 1, 1931 STATES PATENT OFFICE BERT B. GERKEN, F STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA- TOY GUN A Application led August 23, 1930. Serial No. 477,203.

This invention relates to toy guns of that notches and abouta roller 7 mounted in a type using' rubber bands as missiles; my crotch 8. This crotch projects upwardly principal object being to provide a gun of from the gun on the stock portion 2 in simuthis character designed in simulation of an lation of a rear sight. rThe strap thenv ex- 5 actual rifle or shotgun and arranged to sup- .tends downwardly and through a forwardly' 55' port a plurality of bands at one time, which sloping passage 9 in the stock to a connecbands are discharged by the movement of a `tion with an operatin block l0. control member in a manner similar to the This operating bloc is positioned similar manipulation of the ejector arm of a reto the ejector arm of an actual repeating l) peating rifle. The operation of my toy gun rlfle. It is therefore mounted 4for movement 60 therefore imitates to a reasonably close delengthwise of and parallel t0 .the barrel in gree the operation of an actual repeating connection with a guide bar 11 formed with firearm. and below the barrel and which with the A further object of the invention is to adjacent edge of the barrel forms a longi- 15 provide a simple andinexpensive device7 tudinal slot.l2 with which the passage 9 65 and yet one which willcbe exceedingly efcommunicates- .,The length 0f the Strap fective for the purpose for which j it is relative to the length of the slot is such that designed, y when the strap is flexed to follow the con- These objects I accomplish by means of tour of all the lugs andnotches, the block 10 such structure andrelative arrangementof will then be at the rearmost end of its slot 70 parte as will fully appear by a perusal of or gulde; and when the strap is taut bethe following specifica, '0n and Claims, tween its forward end and the roller 7, the

In the drawings simitl characters of refmember l0 will then be at the forward end erence indicate corresponding parts in the OfvtheSlOtl several views; In operation to load the gun the rubber 75 Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the unloaded bands 13 t0 be Used are engaged 011e at 9 gum time with a notch 14 cut in the front end of Fig, 2 is a, Similar View, partly in Section,l the barrel. The band first placed is then showing the gun as fully loaded stretched so as to extend to the foremost 3 is a Similar new 0f the gun l'lOtCh and OVGI' the adJaCI1t81ldvOf the ,80 the operating member in the position occu- Strap 63 The Stlefhed band 1S the? depied after Vcertain ones of the bands have pressed into said notch so that the adjacent been discharged. portion of the strap 6 is also depressed into Fig, 4 is a Cross-Section on the 1in@ 4 4 the notch and will be clamped between the s of Flg. 3. band and the front. wall of the notch. The 85 `Referring new more particularly to the next band is placed over the first band and characters of reference on the drawings, the 1S Strtched S0 aS t0 engage and be Slmllarly gun is preferably mede of a Single flat piece held mconnection with the second notch. of wood shaped to the general proportions By the tlm@ all the bands have. beer1-thl1$ 0f an actuel rifle and so as to have a barrel loaded all the slack in the strap 6 w1 ll be D 1, a stock 2, and a butt 3. Cut in the upper tak@ UP, and the Operatmg block 10 Wlu be edge of the barrel some distance from its posltlfmed at the F031' end 0f the Slot 12- front end is a row of longitudinally spaced A OIWaFd movement Qf the block alOllg notches 4, leaving the lugs 5 therebetween, the S1013 Pulls 0n the adlacen end 0f the the upper portions of whose rear faces are Strap 6 and the tOP Portlon 09th@ latter 0f preferably cut on a bevel as shown. Secured C0UISe-teI1dS t0 straighten Oll- Since the at its forward end on top 0f the barrel e' least resistance to such straightening is afshort distance ahead of the foremost notch forded by the rearmost band, the latter will is a iexible but noneastic strap 6. This be raised from the corresponding notch and strap extends thence` across the row of being released will ily off into space. Similarly a further advance of the block 10 to .further straighten out the strap 6 Willrelease the 'next band and so on in succession until all the bands are finally released. The member 10 Will then be at the front end of the slot 12, and when it is desired to reload the gun it is only necessary to shift said member -to the rear end of the slot in order to give the strap 6 the necessary slack for loading purposes as previously described.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of,

the invention, as defined by the appended claims. f

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: v

1. A toy gun comprising a rigid body formed in simula-tion of a firearm, said body intermediate its ends having. a row of notches in its upper edge forming lugs therebetween to each engage and hold one end of a stretched band whose opposite end is engaged with the front end ofthe body, a

flexible strap secured at one end on the bodyv and adapted to be depressed into the notches and held against the adjacent walls of the lugs by the stretched bands and a control member slidably mounted in connection with the body and to which the opposite end of the strap is secured.

2. A toy gun comprising a rigid body formed in simulation of a firearm, said body intermediate its ends having a rowy of notches in its upper edge forming lugs therebetween to each engage and hold one kend of a stretched band whose opposite end is engaged with the front end of the body, a

flexible strap secured at its forward end onto the body ahead of the foremost notch and adapted to be passed over the lugs and depressed into the notches and held against the adjacent wall of the lugs by the stretched bands, a control member slidab-ly mounted in connection with and under the body for movement lengthwise thereof, the

rear end of the strap being connected to the rear end of said member; and a direction changing element over which the Strap passes between the rearmost notch and its connection with the member whereby the rear end of the strap extends in a forwardly facing direction.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

BERT B. GERKEN. 

